Table-refrigerator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CIIAS. A. MCEVOY, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

TABLE-REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 192432, dated February 23, 1858.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that I, CEAS. A. MoEvoY, of Richmond, in the county of I-Ienrico and State of Virginia, have invented an Improved Ice Dish and Cooler; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in making a dish to contain broken ice for table use, and is intended to combine, with those of an ice dish, the advantages of a cooler, in either, or both of which capacities it may be used at the same time.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure l, is an exterior view of the apparatus complete. Letters D, D, show a row of holes in the outer casing.

Fig. 2, is a sectional view. Letter A, shows the ice dish, or pan, accessible from the top. Letters B, B, show two tubes through which the drip water from the'ice pan escapes into the annular compartment C, C, made to contain it, and from which it is emptied, after use, through the holes D, D, in the outer casing. Letter E, shows a large hollow space beneath the ice pan; and the bottom open; the object of which hollow space is, that it may be lifted and placed over a plate, or dish of any kind, sitting on the table, that may require cooling; butter for instance. From this feature of placing the apparatus over a dish, or anything to be cooled I denominate it a cover cooler.

It will be seen that the bottom and sides of the ice pan together with the inner sides of `the drip compartment afford a large cooling surface to the' hollow space E, thus securing in this invention, by the arrangement of its parts, a dry and perfect cooler, in the most compact and economical form, as, the ice which is placed in the pan for table use, as long as it remains in it, makes it a certain and rapid cooler.

Fig. 3, a sectional view, shows the apparatus as a cooler, with a dish inclosed for the purpose of cooling it.

An ice dish having an escape for the drip water from about the ice, into a chamber such as I have described in the annular space C, C, (Fig. 2) and possessing the advantages of a cooler which can perform such service, without its being necessary to move the article to be cooled, by simply placing the apparatus over such article, I believe to be a desirable improvement.

I do not use, nor do I claim double air tight sides, such as are used in water, or ice pitchers. But

What I do claim is- A combined ice dish and cover cooler, constructed as described, with the tubes, or outlets B, B, in connection with the ice pan A, and annular space C, C, and having the apertures D, D, in the external casing; the several parts being relatively arranged as, and for the purpose specified.

CHAS A. MOEVOY. Witnesses:

W. F. OWENS, A. B. BowIE. 

